By Frank Heath
Sports Columnist

The current North Carolina basketball team has played its way into a situation resembling that of a chicken drumstick in those old Shake ‘N’ Bake advertisements: all covered with delicious coating and ready to be cooked up by the opposition for good eatin’.

Cuz if the Tar Heels don’t win — and play well — in their next stretch of three games against Boston College, Florida State and Duke, that’s how Jay Bilas and all the other college big-time basketball observers around the country are going to treat the Heels. They’re going to need to prove themselves with an exclamation point. More »

By Frank Heath
Sports Columnist

Will this UNC basketball team go down in history as one of the Tar Heels’ best-ever?
The Tar Heels, whose 93-62 skunking of ACC rival NC State on Saturday was their seventeenth win without a defeat, are certainly positioning themselves to be “in the conversation.” More »